Observant states :
Observant states : Geopolitics and visual culture /
edited by Fraser McDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds.
- x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- International library of human geography ; 16 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: envisioning geopolitics / Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds
Imaging terror: logos, pathos and ethos / James Der Derian
Torture and the ethics of photography / Judith Butler
'Not to be missed' weapons of mass destruction: displaying the Enola Gay / Timothy W. Luke
Flying the flag: Pan American Airways and the projection of US power across the interwar Pacific / Alison J. Williams
Affectivity and geopolitical images / Sean Carter and Derek P. McCormack
Gameworld geopolitics and the genre of the quest / Rachel Hughes
'I used to keep a camera in my top left-hand pocket': the photographic practices of British soldiers / Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter and K. Neil Jenkings
The scopic regime of 'Africa' / David Campbell and Marcus Power
Combat zones that see: urban warfare and US military technology / Stephen Graham
Eye to eye: biometrics, the observer, the observed and the body politic / Emily Gilbert
Vigilant visualities: the watchful politics of the war on terror / Louis Amoore
Perpendicular sublime: regarding rocketry and the Cold War / Fraser MacDonald.
'Observant States is one of the best ever collections addressing visual genres and the geopolitics and biopolitics of war. Chapter after chapter, it delivers conceptual innovation and powerful political critique. It's an ideal text to build a course around; I am eager to use it'-Michael Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa --
Geopolitics is changing. The conduct of war and peace is being transformed by our increasing dependence on visual images and practices. Satellite surveillance, computer games, streaming video, retinal scanning and mobile phone cameras are just some of the technologies that are shaping contemporary geopolitics. From the horrors of 9/11 and Abu Ghraib to the mundane functioning of airport biometrics, geopolitical truths are established, and geopolitical realities are enacted, through a process of visual demonstration. Questions of who is eligible to see or be seen, whose details and behaviour can be visually recorded and reproduced are, at the same time, matters of liberty and incarceration, mobility and fixity, citizenship and statelessness. The technologies of representation and observation have become essential military and diplomatic tools: visual culture has become part of the apparatus of persuasion. --
Observant States brings together leading international authors to explore the developing relationship between geopolitics and visual culture. In a perceptive and pioneering work they consider what visuality means, how it is put to work, to what ends and with what technical apparatus. The result is a definitive contribution to a globally significant, newly emergent field of enquiry. --
Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. --
Rachel Hughes is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. --
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
9781845119454 (paperback.)
2010282510
GBB032082 bnb
015495740 Uk
Mass media and war.
Terrorism and mass media.
Mass media--Political aspects.
War in mass media.
Terrorism in mass media.
Geopolitics.
070.44935502 OBS / 013798
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: envisioning geopolitics / Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds
Imaging terror: logos, pathos and ethos / James Der Derian
Torture and the ethics of photography / Judith Butler
'Not to be missed' weapons of mass destruction: displaying the Enola Gay / Timothy W. Luke
Flying the flag: Pan American Airways and the projection of US power across the interwar Pacific / Alison J. Williams
Affectivity and geopolitical images / Sean Carter and Derek P. McCormack
Gameworld geopolitics and the genre of the quest / Rachel Hughes
'I used to keep a camera in my top left-hand pocket': the photographic practices of British soldiers / Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter and K. Neil Jenkings
The scopic regime of 'Africa' / David Campbell and Marcus Power
Combat zones that see: urban warfare and US military technology / Stephen Graham
Eye to eye: biometrics, the observer, the observed and the body politic / Emily Gilbert
Vigilant visualities: the watchful politics of the war on terror / Louis Amoore
Perpendicular sublime: regarding rocketry and the Cold War / Fraser MacDonald.
'Observant States is one of the best ever collections addressing visual genres and the geopolitics and biopolitics of war. Chapter after chapter, it delivers conceptual innovation and powerful political critique. It's an ideal text to build a course around; I am eager to use it'-Michael Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa --
Geopolitics is changing. The conduct of war and peace is being transformed by our increasing dependence on visual images and practices. Satellite surveillance, computer games, streaming video, retinal scanning and mobile phone cameras are just some of the technologies that are shaping contemporary geopolitics. From the horrors of 9/11 and Abu Ghraib to the mundane functioning of airport biometrics, geopolitical truths are established, and geopolitical realities are enacted, through a process of visual demonstration. Questions of who is eligible to see or be seen, whose details and behaviour can be visually recorded and reproduced are, at the same time, matters of liberty and incarceration, mobility and fixity, citizenship and statelessness. The technologies of representation and observation have become essential military and diplomatic tools: visual culture has become part of the apparatus of persuasion. --
Observant States brings together leading international authors to explore the developing relationship between geopolitics and visual culture. In a perceptive and pioneering work they consider what visuality means, how it is put to work, to what ends and with what technical apparatus. The result is a definitive contribution to a globally significant, newly emergent field of enquiry. --
Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh. --
Rachel Hughes is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. --
Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.
9781845119454 (paperback.)
2010282510
GBB032082 bnb
015495740 Uk
Mass media and war.
Terrorism and mass media.
Mass media--Political aspects.
War in mass media.
Terrorism in mass media.
Geopolitics.
070.44935502 OBS / 013798